Directus

What is Directus?

Let's say you're planning on managing content for a website, native app, and widget. Instead of using a CMS that's baked into the website client, it makes more sense to decouple your content entirely and access it through an API or SDK. That's a headless CMS. That's Directus.

Directus is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.

Directus Pros & Cons

Pros of Directus

✓Open Source
✓API-based CMS
✓Self-hostable
✓Version 9 is Javascript Based
✓Graphql
✓User permissisons
✓User roles
✓Components
✓Data visualizations
✓Extensions

Cons of Directus

✗Php based

Directus Integrations

refine, Supabase are some of the popular tools that integrate with Directus. Here's a list of all 2 tools that integrate with Directus.

refine

Supabase

Directus Discussions

Discover why developers choose Directus. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

johnsonblue75

Jun 10, 2023

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Contentful

Strapi

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Hi, I went through a comprehensive analysis - of headless/api content management systems - essentially to store content "bits" and publish them where needed (website, 3rd party sites, social media, etc.). I had considered many other solutions but ultimately chose Directus. I believe that was a good choice.

I had strongly considered Contentful, Strapi, Sanity, and hygraph. Hygraph came in #2 and contentful #3.

Ultimately I liked directus for:

(1) time in business

(2) open source

(3) integration with n8n and Pipedream

(4) pricing

(5) extensibility

Thoughts? Was this a good choice? We have many WordPress sites we're not (at least now) looking to replace with Directus, but instead to push to.

I'd love some feedback.

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Directus Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Directus?

NGINX

nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.

WordPress

The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.

Apache HTTP Server

The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.

Directus

What is Directus?

Directus Pros & Cons

Pros of Directus

Cons of Directus

Directus Integrations

Directus Discussions

Directus Alternatives & Comparisons

NGINX

WordPress

Apache HTTP Server

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Firebase

Heroku

Apache Tomcat

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